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Cockhorse   Listen
noun
Cockhorse  n.  
1.
A child's rocking-horse. "Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross."
2.
A high or tall horse. (R.)





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"Cockhorse" Quotes from Famous Books



... would be merry by fits, sing, dance, and take his liquor too, or else Theodoret belies him; so would old Cato, [3515]Tully by his own confession, and the rest. Xenophon, in his Sympos. brings in Socrates as a principal actor, no man merrier than himself, and sometimes he would [3516]"ride a cockhorse with his children."—equitare in arundine longa. (Though Alcibiades scoffed at him for it) and well he might; for now and then (saith Plutarch) the most virtuous, honest, and gravest men will use feasts, jests, and toys, as we do sauce to ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior


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